Ferdinand Ries was Beethoven's student, close friend and biographer. He was a gifted and prolific composer whose works, like those of many other composers of...continue...
Recording information: Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, New York, USA (04/02/2013-04/03/2013)....continue...

The seventh volume in this acclaimed series is devoted to two works of Albéniz's early maturity. The 12 Piezas características is a cycle of exquisite...continue...
Recording information: Auditorio Manuel de Falla, Conservatorio Profesional de (11/08/2013-11/09/2013)....continue...

This second and final volume of Frederic Mompou's complete songs features the cycle 'Becquerianas,' one of his most ambitious and also one of his most...continue...
Recording information: Auditori Can Roig i Torres, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, S (12/07/2013-12/08/2013)....continue...

This survey of British cello music focuses on three composers whose critical fortunes have never quite matched their undoubted musical gifts. William Wordsworth always displayed...continue...
Recording information: The Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon, UK....continue...

The tenth volume in Jordi Maso´'s groundbreaking series of the complete piano music focuses on the years of Joaqui´n Turina's maturity and the works he...continue...
Recording information: Auditorium, Jafre, Spain (10/12/2013-10/13/2013)....continue...

Alun Hoddinott dominated musical life in his native Wales for over half a century. One of the most versatile and gifted composers of his generation...continue...
Recording information: Menuhin Hall, Yehudi Menuhin School, Cobham, Surrey, En....continue...

Mozart married Constanze Weber in 1782, and it is thanks to her diligent curation of ‘these marvellous relics’ that we have these rarely heard fragments...continue...
Recording information: Fraser Performance Studio, WGBH, Boston, MA (01/08/2013-01/10/2013)....continue...

Franz Liszt wrote relatively little chamber music in his long and illustrious career. The Duo Sonata is a tribute to Chopin, drawing on one of...continue...
Recording information: Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio of Polish Radio, Wars (2013)....continue...

Works: John McCabe: Symphony no 1 ("Elegy"); Fantasy for piano on a theme of Liszt; Study no 1 (Capriccio), for piano; Study no 2 (Sostenuto), for piano; Tuning, for orchestra
Performers:
McCabe, John [Composer, Piano] Conductors:
Snashall, John; McCabe, John Ensemble:
; London Philharmonic Orchestra; National Youth Orchestra of Scotland

This collection brings together several significant recordings of the music of John McCabe, none of which has appeared before on CD. The First Symphony, heard...continue...

Pianist, composer and conductor Ignaz Moscheles was one of the most respected musicians of his time, and throughout his long life was at the social...continue...
Recording information: Grand Auditorium, Mie Centre for the Arts, Tsu, Mie Pre (2013-06-11_2013-06-13&2013-)....continue...

Respighi’s Sonata in B minor was completed a year after The Fountains of Rome had brought him international renown. A work of considerable dimensions and...continue...
Recording information: Church of Sant'Apollinare, Monticello di Lonigo, Vicenz (09/09/2013-09/12/2013)....continue...

Grazyna Bacewicz played a leading role in bringing Polish music into the 20th-century mainstream and onto the international stage. Following in the footsteps of Szymanowski,...continue...
Recording information: Pomeranian Philharmonic Hall, Bydgoszcz, Poland (09/03/2013-09/05/2013)....continue...

The request for Haydn to write The Seven Last Words came from a priest in Cadiz to mark Good Friday. Setting the words of Christ...continue...
Recording information: Phoenix Studio, Diósd, Hungary (07/22/2013-07/23/2013)....continue...

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was Jewish by culture but regularly composed on Biblical themes. A meditation on stories from the New Testament in music of tender simplicity,...continue...
Recording information: Baroque Hall, SMC Records, Ivrea, Italy (12/09/2013-12/10/2013)....continue...

Although Soler wrote for the church it is his secular compositions, in particular his keyboard sonatas, that are his best-known achievement. Most were written for...continue...
Recording information: Auditorium, Palau de Congressos, Girona, Spain (02/04/2013-02/06/2013)....continue...

This unique recording owes its existence to Malcolm Smith (1932-2011), who was a leading and popular figure in London's musical life. He was a stalwart...continue...
Recording information: The Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon, UK....continue...

Whilst Alessandro Scarlatti was largely responsible for the early development of Neapolitan opera, his son Domenico is most famous for his extensive series of keyboard...continue...
Recording information: Glenn Gould Studio, CBC, Toronto, Canada (07/15/2013-07/17/2013)....continue...

When Arnold Cooke died in 2005 at the age of ninety-eight, he was the last survivor of a great generation of British composers that included...continue...
Recording information: Music Hall of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Lo (2005-10-02&2005-10-09&2005-)....continue...

In the latest volume of this critically admired series, a number of rarely heard pieces from Albéniz's first compositional phase can be savored. They were...continue...
Recording information: Real Conservatorio Superior de Música, Madrid, Spain (07/06/2013-07/07/2013)....continue...

Joseph Achron was a child prodigy as a violinist, and despite great success as a composer he considered himself a performer for most of his...continue...
Recording information: Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York, USA (05/06/2013/05/07/2013)....continue...

Ursula Mamlok lived for many years in New York before returning to Berlin, the city of her birth, in her eighties. Featuring a conspectus of...continue...
Recording information: Kammermusiksaal der Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, Germ (02/01/2013)....continue...

Famed for his operatic music, Jake Heggie has always been a devoted and prolific songwriter. Three early song cycles for soprano and piano feature in...continue...
Recording information: Oktaven Audio LLC, Yonkers, New York, USA (04/26/2013/06/04/2013)....continue...

Just as Albéniz did in his concert programmes, this recording alternates pieces in Spanish style with some of the entertaining salon miniatures written for Spain's...continue...
Recording information: Conservatorio Profesional de Música Rafael Frühbeck de (07/08/2013-07/09/2013)....continue...

Sandro Fuga inherited a passion for art and music from a family line which includes the composer Luigi Nono. He felt himself part of a...continue...
Recording information: Aula Magna "Giovanni Agnelli Del Politecnico Di Torino (02/01/2013-02/02/2013)....continue...

One of Spain's leading composers of the second half of the twentieth century, Xavier Montsalvatge wrote some 200 works and explored almost all musical genres....continue...
Recording information: Patrych Sound Studios, New York City, USA....continue...

Maurice Jacobson was regarded in his lifetime as a "musician extraordinary" such was his versatility as a composer, performer and music administrator. His works are...continue...
Recording information: The Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon, UK....continue...

These two Quintets from Vaughan Williams' formative years reveal a young creative artist attempting to establish his own personal musical language....continue...
Recording information: Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, England (07/02/2013-07/04/2013)....continue...

Expedition Audio RecommendedJake Heggie is one of the today's outstanding composers. He has written many fine works and is perhaps this country’s greatest living opera...continue...
Recording information: Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Sea....continue...